Is their a shortage of the upgrade kits. Been waiting over a month to find out when i can send my K1 to get upgraded. In the uk we only have the one approved Pentax repair centre we can send the K1 they are still waiting a delivery of the kits.

I had a K20 for a number of years without any problem eventually I persuaded her indoors that I need to upgrade hence the K3. I have noticed that it is very slow writing the images to the memory card. I started to get an error when viewing the images back " images to large to be displayed" this only occurred if I was shooting images very quickly. I took the error to Pentax who as usual went the usual loop of firmware type of memory used etc. One of the things that came out of it I was using class 10 but you have to be careful of the speed rating as some will have "up to 20 MB per Sec" this can be quite slow if you are shooting in RAW hence I am going to upgrade the cards to SDXC cards which are much faster. currently 7dayshop.com have a 64 GB for £12.99. hope some of this helps. by the way I found out the issue when I looked at the card in a card reader I had 2 raw images with the same name.

my question is..... What is the recomended memory card speed for the K3. I have had what i might call a buffering problem. especially when capturing mulitiple images when trying to capture a panoramic scene by just pointing and clicking a number of times. I have noticed it takes a while to write the image. I id not experience this issue with my K20. I do get an error saying image is to big to be displayed. which suggetsts ithe bufffer is overflowing and corrupting the image.

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